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Speed, a review by addicted2dvd

Speed
Hold on tight for a rush of pulse-pounding thrills, breathtaking stunts and unexpected romance in a film you'll want to see again and again. KEANU REEVES stars as Jack Traven, an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge driven extortionist (DENNIS HOPPER) has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and one of the passengers (SANDRA BULLOCK) must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour - or the bomb will explode. A high-octane chase of suspense, nonstop action and surprise twists, SPEED is a joyride sure to keep everyone on the edge of their seats.

My Thoughts:
This was either the first or second thing I ever seen Sandra Bullock in... and I have been a fan of her's every since. This is a movie I haven't seen in many years. So long in fact that I went into this movie today not really remembering much of anything other then the main basic plot of the movie. I got to say after watching it that I really enjoyed every minute of it. It is a good non-stop action movie. Sure... there is a lot of scenes in this movie that is unbelievable... but if you can suspend believability this is a great action packed bus trip. When it comes to DVD extras on this release I was a bit disappointed. Sure... there is a couple audio commentaries. But that is all you get. Not even the theatrical trailer... which many of you know is a pet peeve of mine.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: 3/6 - 3/8 on March 8th, 2009)

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, a review by dfmorgan

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Year: 2008
Director: Aditya Chopra
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Vinay Pathak
Overview: You might have a love story to tell?

Maybe not! How can an ordinary man have a breathtaking, goose flesh igniting, awe inspiring love story of all things to tell?

But guess what - love does not differentiate between the ordinary and exceptional, the uninteresting and interesting, the unattractive and attractive. Because love knows no distinction. It can happen to anyone and once it does it engulfs us into it completely and gives us those miraculous experiences that only love can yield.

This is what happened to Surinder Sahni (Shahrukh Khan) - a simple, clean hearted, honest man working for Punjab Power, leading a humdrum life, when he meets his total opposite and finds love in the flamboyant, fun-loving, vivacious - Taani (Anushka Sharma) for whom the whole world is her canvas and she paints her own life with the colours of rainbow all until unforseen circumstances changes it all and brings them together.

What follows is a journey filled with laughter, tears, joy, pain, music, dance and a lot of love.
A journey that makes us believe that there is an extraordinary love story in every ordinary jodi.

Watched: 24th. Dec 2010
My Thoughts: Oh my what do I say? I watched this initially with some trepidation, wondering if this was going to be a Bollywood remake of Shall We Dance?, which itself was a remake of the Japanese film Shall We Dansu?. As Shall We Dansu? is a film I really enjoyed I was a little concerned but my fears were quickly put aside as this film tells a completely different story. This is a gorgeous romance with a healthy dash of comedy. A couple are brought together by tragedy but the tragic events leave the wife, Taani (Anushka Sharma),  having no love for her new  husband, Surinder Sahni (Shahrukh Khan), who does love his wife but will not declare it. The film follows them and their choices. We see Taani attending dance classes and Surinder adopting an alter-ego, Raj, to try to see what the dance classes offer. At the end Taani is in a fix over Surinder and Raj and has to make a choice.

Shahrukh Khan plays both the geekish Surinder and his alter-ego the fun-loving Raj and plays both of them superbly to evoke the mood of the moment and the switch in action.

My Rating: A gorgeous romantic comedy 4

(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on December 26th, 2010)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

Happy Days - Season 1

All The Way
Potsie sets Richie up with a girl known to have a reputation. Richie doesn't get far with her but leads Fonzie and others to believe he did.



Poodle skirts... jukeboxes... cars with soaring tail fins... and rockin' and rollin' all week long.
Those Happy Days are here again! Join one of America's best-loved TV families - the Cunninghams - in the premiere season of this top-rated television series. Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard), "Potsie" Weber (Anson Williams), Ralph Malph (Donny Most) and "The Fonz" (Henry Winkler) head a brilliant comedic cast in this nostalgic, smash-hit TV sitcom. Arnold's Drive-In is their local hangout and meeting place, and lots of hilarious, memorable and classic adventures are the result.

Nostalgic look back to a series every kid used to watch after school. Pilot works as an introduction to the whole cast, with Richies brother in evidence although I had forgotten he was actually ever in it. Also couldn't remember at the time all the annoying canned laughter, it must have just gone past without my noticing in my innocent teenage years!
Joanie is still just a little kid, and part of the gang is Chuck, another cast member I had totally fogotten about. The Fonz is not one of the leads at this stage, and there are less laughs than I remember from later series.
Not sure what happened to the likes of Potsie and Ralph after Happy Days, they don't show up in any more of my collection, and of course success came tumbling in for Ron Howard and in a smaller scale Henry Winkler.
True escapism.
 

(From My PILOT Marathon on September 23rd, 2009)